The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s (PDE) Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth (AEDY) Team will provide a webinar on October 18, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. The webinar is titled, The State… Read More
Note: Registration for this event will open on October 9, 2017. Go to www.iu5.org to access the registration link. December 3-5, 2017 PDE’s SAS Institute, Innovative Students…Innovative Educators, is scheduled… Read More
LANCASTER, PA (Oct. 4, 2017)—Representatives from the Pennsylvania Principals Association, the statewide Pre-K for PA campaign, School District of Lancaster and Lancaster County Head Start today discussed high-quality pre-k and… Read More
MECHANICSBURG, PA (Oct. 4, 2017)—Representatives from the Pennsylvania Principals Association, the statewide Pre-K for PA campaign, Mechanicsburg Area School District, United Way of the Capital Region, the Learning and Play… Read More
Something big is happening here. Governments, nonprofits, donors and educators are gearing up to try to solve two intractable, and seemingly disparate, problems — at the same time. The first… Read More
Pennsylvania’s hotel tax rate would nearly double and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh would have the nation’s two highest combined state-and-city hotel taxes under a proposal surfacing Tuesday in the House of… Read More
Even among the charter schools — both brick-and-mortar and cyber — there’s a wide range of compensation that, in some cases, doesn’t appear to always be tied to academic achievement… Read More
Lawmakers returned to the Pennsylvania Capitol amid a three-month-old budget stalemate Monday, but optimism from top Republican lawmakers about an evolving proposal to fill a $2.2 billion revenue gap did… Read More
The districts are making plans to accommodate students with a unique set of needs: Some coming from the Caribbean island have limited English skills, some are already weeks behind because… Read More
Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is trimming what amounts to two days off the standardized tests given in grades 3 through 8. In addition, a push is underway to halt plans… Read More